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Business Ethics and Organizational Values

A Systems Theoretical Analysis

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Ole Thyssen

    1. Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Functional Subsystems

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 3-22

    3. Forms of Compulsion

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 23-32

    4. Growth as Inflation of Demands

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 33-42

  3. Organization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. What is an Organization?

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 45-61

    3. The Four Systems of the Organization

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 62-83

  4. Value

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Values

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 87-108

    3. Why Values in Organizations?

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 109-130

    4. Changing Values of Work

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 131-154

    5. Values and Stakeholders

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 155-178

    6. From Values to Morals to Ethics

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 179-207

    7. Values and Accounting

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 208-229

    8. Beautiful Lies — Values in Practice

      • Ole Thyssen
      Pages 230-242

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 243-249
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Organizational values are a hot topic as private and public organizations are not only evaluated according to their products and profits, but also according to the circumstances of the product - labour conditions, materials, risks, human rights and social responsibility. Values are becoming the defining identity of organizations.

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  • Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

    Ole Thyssen

About the author

OLE THYSSEN is a well-known Danish philosopher, who for the last 40 years has published more than 30 books on psychoanalysis, Marxism, systems theory, ethics and aesthetics. He has worked on five Danish universities and is now Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

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